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Authentication with an API key

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Authentication with an API key

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- [Instructor] What's everyone's favorite way to communicate? What's everyone's favorite way to waste time? It's GIFs of course. You love them, I love them. We all love them. Sometimes I have entire text conversations using only GIFs. When you work with APIs, you'll probably want to work with a real API with real data for a real company. Fortunately for us, GIPHY has a great public API. It's free, it's fun, and most importantly has excellent documentation. So let's start by looking through the GIPHY documentation. Hover over docs in the top menu bar and click API quickstart guide. The GIPHY API provides us with lots of information and it's clearly put together. The main thing we care about are going to be endpoints and parameters. But first one notable difference between the GIPHY API and the H+ Sports API is that the GIPHY API requires that you register an app and sign up for an API key in order to use the API. This…

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